N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). Most would call it work.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 31, 2012

In a time when the workforce is increasingly transient, your ability to identify high-performing and high-potential employees—and that of your managers—is critical. To that end, there are strategies that any manager can apply to develop high-potentials and high-performers effectively. Set Your Line Managers Up for Success.

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Management Software Comparison Project 214

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Highlights from John’s talk include: “If people don’t understand how their work matters, it’s a #leadership failure.”

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Becky Robinson and the Weaving Influence team pulled together a great webinar on Servant Leadership. Servant Leadership begins with self-examination. Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership. Highlights from John’s talk include: “If people don’t understand how their work matters, it’s a #leadership failure.”

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Blanchard P&L Greenleaf Leadership 100

Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Instead of pulling others up, many managers choose to push people down. The corporate world is littered with managers but lack leaders. Over the course of may career, I only had one manager who was a leader. He made such an impact and influenced my leadership style. Your most valuable asset is your people.

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Collins Micromanagement Comparison Leadership Styles 117

Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2021

Now imagine a group of creatures, dripping, stinking, and standing on the bank, male, female, big and small – about seven give or take and you have what company leadership groups look like as they emerge from the pandemic and take their first steps in dealing with the new reality. It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams.

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Team Leadership Banking Uncertainty 132

Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Leadership Walk by Kevin Eikenberry on September 6, 2010 in Leadership , Learning We are all on a walk. Each of these is part of your leadership walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader.

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Leadership Workshop Learning-by-Doing Blog 202

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

By turning to a skillful executive coaching company that knows exactly how to deliver results when it comes to leadership coaching and helping leaders do what they do best: optimize their performance, imagine further, and lead well. Still, it has taken many different forms, and today, not all executive or leadership coaching is created equal.

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Executive Coaching Execution Self-aware Company 318

Lead from Within

JULY 10, 2018

Character in leadership means consistently doing the right thing and the best thing. It plays a major role in your ability to lead and influence. Great character is molded into great leadership. Leaders lose respect when they have to rely on demands and control—and losing respect is fatal to leadership.

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Delegation Micromanagement Comparison Motivation 167

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

In recent years, there’s been a growing focus on the importance of emotional intelligence in today’s leadership. To date, there have been numerous studies that have shown the growing expectations employees have on their leaders to demonstrate a greater proficiency in leading people over managing tasks.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

True leaders at any level of the totem pole show their leadership primarily through managing their own emotions. After all, the only things we can control in life are our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and if we can manage those, we can lead our organizations from anywhere in the hierarchy.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

Energizing the system from top to bottom is a key task of leadership. Clearly, many managers are failing to connect people with the strategies they are emotionally prepared to support with their daily work. Employee engagement, and the participative management practices that go with it, are not a panacea for every business problem.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In so doing it will distinguish burnout from cyclical job or task-related regression, and will also provide strategies for employees and managers to consider for enhancing workplace health. By point of comparison, workplace burnout is something altogether different. leadership, conflict resolution, decision-making, etc.).

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Absenteeism Situational Leadership Self-aware Micromanagement 52

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 25, 2013

What I mean by personal business maturity is one’s ability to manage adversity and change with poise and professionalism regardless of circumstances. Managing yourself and others when turmoil is present is difficult enough. It’s more than just “making lemonade out of lemons.”

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 22, 2019

One of the best performance management exercises ever developed is the real-time comparison. The exercise positions a thoughtful discussion between a manager and a direct report. While the employee is thoughtfully complying with the request, the manager makes his/her own list (i.e., The manager is overleading.

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Comparison Motivation Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 60

Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Even More Leadership Lessons from the Washington Redskins So, if you’re a regular reader of this blog, you might have expected me to have some sort of leadership lessons post on yesterday’s mid-term elections.  He fired his lackey and hired a professional general manager. You have to give him credit for all of that. 

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Leadership Blog Sports Learning-by-Doing 137

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Managers want to understand how their teams contribute to the organization, and they want to identify high performers and potential leaders along the way. Many know and use the nine-box model , for example, to map past performance against future leadership potential.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I’m a big proponent of the 10 and 2 school of steering wheel management – meaning that your left hand should generally be at the 10 o’ clock position on the wheel and your right hand should be at 2 o’ clock. OK, by now you’re saying, “Nice story about a dad and his son but what does this have to do with leadership?” Good question.

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Learning-by-Doing Executive Coaching Blog Letter 141

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Executives we talk to assume that if they’re good managers, then being a good coach is like your shadow on a sunny day. This would be good news, if it were so, since more and more top executives are expecting managers to coach their subordinates. Nor is it a skill that is automatically acquired in the course of learning to manage.

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Management Customer Loyalty Advice Comparison 16

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Unfortunately, with the focus on profit, solution placement, timelines, and commissions, the potential for true servant-leadership has been overlooked. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm. The result?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2013

Who else is influenced by or involved with your product? If all of this seems like hard work, it pales by comparison to the work you’ll have to do if you’re unprepared after the fact. Talk to and meet with the people that USE your product or service. And they tell the real story of quality and service response.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

StrategyDriven Newsletter Signup StrategyDriven (Kindle Edition) StrategyDriven RSS Feed StrategyDriven Podcast iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective iTunes Feed StrategyDriven on Facebook StrategyDriven on Twitter StrategyDriven LinkedIn Users Group Recent Articles Worn out at Work?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

sales, leadership, marcom, coaching). Or therapists or managers or leaders say “They’re resisting”. Because influencers are unaware of how their particular bias restricts an answer, they have no concept if there are different answers possible, and often move forward with bad data. no bias) and Servant Leadership.

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Resistance System Servant Leader Banking 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! She has over twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders and has influenced the perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s common causes. Thanks, Nancy!”

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Tips Audience Newsletter Armstrong 62

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72

You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 2, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Managing Your Personal Impact …One Boss’s Story Remembering the Basics – What I learned from My Mother → May 3, 2010 · 4:28 am ↓ Jump to Comments Listen Up! I didn’t hear you.” Well,” he says. That’s because you weren’t listening.”

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Blog Learning-by-Doing McCarthy Comparison 42

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

StrategyDriven Newsletter Signup StrategyDriven (Kindle Edition) StrategyDriven RSS Feed StrategyDriven Podcast iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective iTunes Feed StrategyDriven on Facebook StrategyDriven on Twitter StrategyDriven LinkedIn Users Group Recent Articles Worn out at Work?

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Planning Audience Succession Library 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2015

They are fixated on achieving goals and continuously measure their performance in comparison to their goals. Sales management impact. Does a salesperson’s manager play a determining factor in achieving success? Study participants were also asked to rank the different attributes of great sales managers.

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Comparison Morale CRM Influence 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 58

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by admin in Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as some people won’t want to hear this, “ help &# is not a dirty word. Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader.

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Blog Brand Influence Open-book 390

You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Having said that, and in spite of the rash of comparisons which will inevitably be made to Olympian behaviour in articles everywhere, I feel somehow compelled to use the Olympics as a springboard for some observations of my own. I think this is where the leadership lesson lies. So, ready or not, here goes. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Blog McCarthy Self-aware Comparison 40

Roundtable Talk

APRIL 13, 2011

Fast forward to the late 90’s when I rejoined the private sector in a leadership consulting firm that was all about “pay for performance” on a highly leveraged model. Afterall, that’s the best part of leadership. That’s going to make money the issue). And here, for me, lies the rub. To make things better. Happy leading!

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Motivation Comparison Learning-by-Doing Marketing 37

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 9, 2024

Although it pales in comparison …How often do people overlook illegal activities, cover up abuses, fail to stand up for injustice, or sit idly by while people bully their victims? Furthermore, some people fear reprisal, while other folks are misguided — influenced by popular whims, misleading information, or propaganda.

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Due Diligence Groupthink Follow-up Comparison 101

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

They replicate despite changes in leadership and in management systems. People are far more influenced by their immediate surroundings than by a code of conduct set at the top. The reputations of other teams suffer as they appear to underachieve in comparison. These conditions seem to persist and metastasize.

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Ethics Organization Incentives Long-term 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Too often, we let our biases creep in and influence our thinking. Draw, jot words, make circles, or what you do when you doodle. As you loosen up, ideas may start to form on the page. Forget everything you know. Start fresh, without preconceived notions of what you must do or what is impossible. Be open to anything and everything.

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